What are ten ways to conserve resources in your home?

Answer 1

Here are 10 steps you should consider. Don't feel guilty, if you can't do them all. Just try to do one more thing than you are presently doing and then one more after that.

1. Insulate your home. Caulk and weatherstrip. Plant deciduous shade trees on the south and west sides of your home to block the sun in summer and allow it to warm your house in winter. Dress warmly and turn down the heat in winter.
2. Make fuel efficiency a high priority when buying a car.Join a carpool or use the bus. Walk or ride a bicycle when possible.
3. Grow your own food and/or buy locally produced food. Eat organic and fewer processed foods. Go vegetarian at least once a week. Meat makes less efficient use of land, water and energy and cows emit methane.
4. Recycle. Separate wastes. Compost yard and food wastes. Use recycled products, especially paper.
5. Reduce or eliminate your use of "disposable" products.Buy quality and then make things last with regular maintenance. Rent or borrow items that you don't use often.
6. Re-use envelopes, jars and scrap paper. Take your own bags to the grocery store. Check out garage sales and thrift stores for a chance to re-use someone else's throw-aways.
7. Pave as little as possible. Use gravel or other porous surface for driveways and garden paths. Collect rainwater and graywater for gardening use. Water with a drip system or soaker hoses.
8. Get involved in community tree planting, in protecting local watershed areas and/or donate money to environmental organizations.
9. Support electoral candidates, who have a responsible environmental platform. Let those in office know of your concerns and consider running for office yourself.
10. Spend more time in your garden and in natural areas.Rejoice in the beauty of the Earth. Pass on your environmental ethic to children.

Answer 2

1. Turn the lights off when you leave a room.

2. Don't leave water running for no reason.

3. Use cloth napkins instead of paper ones.

4. Reuse plastic bags from the grocery store as trash bags.

5. Use rags that can be washed, not paper towels, for cleaning up spills.

6. Recycle

7. Take shorter showers

8. Turn the TV off when you leave the room.

9. Take the bus, instead of driving

10. Carpool

Answer 3

(a) Conservation of forest is a national problem so it must be tackled with perfect coordination between forest department and other departments.

(b) People's participation in the conservation of forests is of vital importance. So, we must get them involved in this national task.

(c) The cutting of trees in the forests must be stopped at all costs.

(d) Afforestation or special programmes like Van Mahotsava should be launched on grand scale.

(e) Celebrations of all functions, festivals should precede with tree-plantation.

(f) Cutting of timber and other forest produce should be restricted.

(g) Grasslands should be regenerated.

(h) Forest conservation Act 1980 should be strictly implemented to check deforestation.

(i) Several centres of excellence have been setup and awards should be instituted.

Answer 4

use them for storage

use them for containers for food

replenish the item as and art piece

decorate it

use it as a school project

use it as a fun craft

recyle it into a stylish purse

also have a breaking contest

make music

put it in a scrapbook

Answer 5

Well if you were really concerned about this you would think about it and easily come up with a good list. The list I would choose would not be your list so actually only YOU can answer this homework question properly for your teacher.